Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-30

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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN KANSAS.
When the Legislature of Kansas passed
the hill giving women the right to vote 1t
WAS not expected that all the women IN
the towns aud cities would at once register
and avail themselves of their new privilege.
This WAS an innovation, and there Is al
ways prejudice against innovation that re-
quires time to overcome.
But this new law is Disappointing its
friends. The time in which voters can
register is about passed and the election
soon occurs, and so far but a small proper
ton of the women have registered. y
few DAYS ago less than 600 women in
L~eayenswOrth, a town Of 1900 in 1880,
had registered. The number in Atkinson,
n town of $4,000 in 1SSO, was less than
100. In Wichita, with u present popula-
ton of -, 900, not more than 800 women
have registered. In many towns the pro-
portion is still less, while in Others OF
course there is a better showing. But 1t is
probable that less than One-third OF the
women who are entitled to vote will avail
themselves of the privilege, though the
woman s~uffragists and the prOhibitionists
have been using their utmost efforts to
bring out the full vote.
The German women are said to be the
slOwest OF all in seeking to vote, while
the colored women are the most eager and
will nearly all vote. Also it is observed
that the women of questionable character
are almost unanimous in registering.
1t may be too sOon yet to judge Of the
results. But the prospect at present fol-
purifying municipal government by woman
suffrage doesn't look encouraging. II
looks probable that the influence by the
women who desire to elevate and purify
municipal affairs will be neutralized by
the other class of women. So small a
proportion of the former class seem to care
about voting, while the latter class will
vote almost en- masse.
THE YEAR OF JUBILEE HAS COME.
England's Poet Laureate has given the
world another poem, q jubilee ode, called
Carmen ~Sacculare." Like most OF his
poems on state occasions, the lines are writ
ten because he has to write them. 1t is his
business and he is paid for it. These are
some of the tributes he PAYS to Eugland's
great Queen:
Finy times the rose has lowered AMI faded,
Fi0y times the golden harvest fallen,
Since our queen assumed the globe, the scepter.
She, beloved for n kindlineSS,
Rare in fable OF history, r
Queen and Empress OF India
crowned 30 long with a diadcm.
Never worn by a wOrthier,
Nowwlth prosperous sugurieS,
Comes 1t last TO the bouHteOus,
CrOwniug year Of her jubilee.
Further on the poet sings and closes
the ode
Ffay years uf eyer-brOadening commerce;
Fifty years OF ever. frightening science:
Finy years Of Overwhelming empire.
You, the mighty, the fortunate.
You, the lord territorial,
You, the lord manufacturer
You, the hardy, laborious. pattern children Of
Albion:
You, Canadian, Indian, Australian, African
All your hearts be in harmony, all your voices in
unison
Singing hail 10 the glorious
Golden year Of her jubilee.
Are there thundeS moaning in the distance
Are there Spectres moving in the darkness
Trust the Lord Of Light 10 guide her people till
the thunder as, the spectres vanish.
And the light is victor, aud the darkness dawns
into the jubilee Of the age.
"Are there thunders moaning in the
distance? Are there specters moving in
the darkness" Here, in spite of the fact
that this is the year Of the. Queens jubilee,
he falls into the gloomy spirit that per-
meates his "LOcksley Hall sixty years
after" He can't help it. The signs of
the times fill him with gloomy fo~rebOdings
for England's future. The spirit of unrest
beneath the very throne and the cries of
the oppressed that come across from the
Emerald Isle, are alone enough to throw
a shadow over apOem that was intended
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